Craving Crusher

My new favorite lunch is a pita salad.
I literally salivate whenever I think about it.
And thank goodness
it's both healthy and delicious.

And easy to prepare, to boot!

I prefer the whole wheat pita-
(or Kangaroo Bread, as some call it)
and most groceries sell it near the bakery
or the bread products.
I happened to run across
the Weight Watcher pitas while out of town,
(which are half the points as regular),
but you can't find them here locally.

I buy the Shreds lettuce-
slice up a few radishes, cukes
and carrots-
add reduced-fat feta cheese,
chopped cherry tomatoes,
and a smidgen of raisins.
I blend all that with Good Seasons
dry packaged dressing
(that I mixed
with seasoned rice vinegar only).
No oil.

I usually heat two pita halves
for 15-20 seconds in the microwave
and stuff those babies with
my salad concoction.

It is filling and fit
and satisfies that crunchy-but-sour
craving I usually get about mid-day.

Depending on your diet plan,
you could add tuna or chicken-
or try just lettuce with sliced strawberries
and a lo-fat poppy seed dressing.

One tip is that
you may want to store your pitas
in the refrigerator.
I've found out that they don't
keep very long at room temperature.
There's nothing worse than
planning a great pita salad-
only to find the bread's gone green.

A salad by itself seems lacking substance-
but a salad stuffed inside those wheat
pockets looks like cheating!

Have you got a favorite
craving-crusher?
Share it with all of us here.

We can always use some great new ideas
to help make this journey
a more pleasant process.

33 more days and we're halfway there!